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RE: [OT] Urgent Help Needed! W2K3 Server problem
- Subject: RE: [OT] Urgent Help Needed! W2K3 Server
problem
- From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:05:04 +0100
Panic over - now fixed!
I did the re-install option and it seems to be mostly working OK - a few
little niggles to get sorted still though.
Paul.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 03 September 2006 12:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Urgent Help Needed! W2K3 Server problem
>
> Sorry for OT - but I've got a big problem.
>
> Any server experts out there?...
>
> Big disaster here :( Wonder if you can advise what I need to do?
>
> I have a recently built W2K3 R2 server running:
>
> Exchange 2K3 Server
> Domain Controller
> All the bits such as IIS, FTP, WINS, DHCP etc
>
> Only recently finished installing so no backup yet :(
>
> I was installing Acronis true image enterprise trial to see what it
> was like and had a load of problems with one of the components not
> installing (backup server). After lots of research on their forums,
> it appears lots of people were also having the problem. Anyway,
> decided to remove it but on restart, the event log was still showing
> the server was still trying to restart the Acronis backup server
> (which had failed to install). I went into the registry and removed
> all traces of the acronis install but didn't touch anything else.
> There were a few drivers and program entries. Unfortunately, I still
> hadn't made a backup and did not backup the registry DOH!!! (OK, so
> I know I'm stupid!)
>
> I restarted and then got a BSOD STOP 0x0000007B which then just
> rebooted and looped. I tried all the options - safe mode, last good
> config, etc etc - but nothing worked. no boot log seems to have been
> written but safe mode shows it fails after ACPITABL.DAT.
>
> I'm guessing one of the drivers maybe is still being referenced
> somewhere but I've deleted the entries for it - or maybe shagged
> something else in the registry although I was careful (maybe not
> careful enough!)
>
> I can get into the recovery console and did a LISTSVC but there
> aren't any obvious drivers/services loading that spring to mind.
>
> If I attempt a reinstall over the old install, will I shag
> everything? Any other steps I should take before going down this
> path?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
> (ps if replying off list - please email to psghome2002 @ yahoo dot
> co dot uk as my mail server is down!) Thanks.
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